NORWAY: The In’s & Out’s of the Sex Worker Industry.

By Bella Filacuridi

According to transgender sex worker Lilith Staalesen, the current prostitution policies in Norway neglect sex worker rights and facilitate unsafe working environments. Nearly 10 years since the criminalisation of purchasing sexual services, sex workers are still fighting for standardised labour working regulations to ensure their safety. 

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Bosnia and Herzegovina: division through education

by Beatričė Bankauskaitė & Tereza Dorňáková

Twenty-three years ago peace between the former Yugoslav republics was “officially established” by the Dayton Agreement, however, the reconciliation between the countries has been still in making. Such a significant field as education is still left behind the “more important” topics in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The project touches two examples of division in education – different content of history textbooks and phenomenon “two schools under one roof”. In the  last section you will get interactive “history lesson” about the Siege of Sarajevo and about the most important events during 20th century in Western Balkans territory.

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With some of the strictest laws in Europe, Poland has created a country that provides women with barely any rights to legal abortions. But with the recent wave of women’s movements, more Polish women are standing up to this oppression.

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Seeking Refuge in Denmark

In 2018 Denmark stopped accepting UN Quota refugees to focus on the integration of existing refugees.  However, a recent finance act for 2019 states otherwise. Van Damme a refugee hoping to gain asylum in Denmark shares his uncertainty and how he finds his refuge in civil response programs like DFUNK.

Read the full story here: “I’m wasting my childhood being a refugee”

Van Damme (left) hopes to seek asylum in Denmark